Perhaps this isn't a unique experience, and everyone faces the same conundrum during their coding careers, but I found the process of graduating a coding bootcamp very jarring. You're thrown into the world having learned, at some foundational level, several new technologies. It's up to you to figure out how to leverage those technologies to create applications that you can grow your portfolio with. How are you supposed to take that newfound knowledge and piece it all together?
Thinking about this would often times make my head spin. I had several ideas for projects, but wasn't sure how feasible they were with my skill-set. After many failed projects, I realized I had to start small and simply re-learn -- this time in greater detail -- the same concepts we learned in bootcamp. In this series of posts, I document that process, and some things I've discovered along the way.
To keep myself motivated, I have chosen a themed app to match my current obsession: Animal Crossing. The goal is simple, create a 'dashboard' that will allow me to view my friend's turnip prices and item wish-lists. The application should use MySQL, Node/Express, and React. If you're interested, follow along! In the next post I'll go over creating a basic boilerplate for the application.
How has your experience been graduating bootcamp?
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